Case Study
Year: 2012 Passive RFID
Automated Asset Management via RFID
Colgate-Palmolive, a multinational consumer products company focused on the production,
distribution and provision of household, health care and personal products, such as soaps,
detergents, and oral hygiene products, successfully completed the roll out of a new RFID Asset
Management system at its manufacturing site in Athens, Greece.
Colgate-Palmolive cooperated with Business Effect in order improve the reliability and
simplify the asset inventory taking process through the efficient use of RFID technology.
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All company assets have been identified using customized RFID labels & tags, tuned specifically to each
asset’s characteristics. Business Effect’s application, “Effective Object Inventory” in combination with the
customized RFID HW used to control company inventory processes, provide personnel the capability for quick
and accurate inventory, as well as fast data exchange with the Colgate Palmolive’s ERP system.
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Solution
Results
Automation of Asset Management
Reliable location information and Asset visibility.
Improve personnel productivity
Better asset utilization
Business Effect AE
Marathonos Ave. & Agiou Athanasiou str.
145 69 Anoixi, Athens
Tel:(+30) 210 8144474 – Fax: (+30) 210 8144475
www.businesseffect.gr / www.rfid.gr